How to pronounce blocks
Listen to blocks in real sentences, spoken by real people, in the original YouTube videos. No dictionary recording — the word as it is actually used.
“blocks” in real sentences
1000+ clips in the index · 782 American · 490 British. Clips come from parliamentary and government channels under open licences.
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BIG BLOCKS, SMALL BLOCKS AND BITS.
NASA · watch from 36:23 · hear it here
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smaller geographic levels like census tracts, blocks, block groups, or blocks.
Census Bureau · watch from 18:20 · hear it here
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tight against the blocks.
National Archives · watch from 16:59 · hear it here
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These Sensor-Integrated Geometric Blocks or SIG-Blocks wirelessly relay data to a computer.
NSF · watch from 2:27 · hear it here
Why real speech
A dictionary gives you one careful reading of blocks. Conversation gives you the stress, the vowel reduction and the speed that people actually use — and they differ between accents. YouTongue plays the surrounding sentence, so you hear the word in the rhythm it belongs to.